Law Loses Ground to Medicine, Engineering in Teen Career Goals

Feb. 20, 2020, 9:51 AM UTC

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. This week, we investigate why a recent survey found 15-year-olds aren’t as interested in becoming lawyers as they once were.

It was a big week for news impacting the future of the legal profession.

The American Bar Association passed a resolution encouraging states to experiment with new regulatory structures that could one day make it possible for law firms to be owned by people other than lawyers.

The ABA also released statistics that continued a recent streak of good news about ...

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